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Bootup 2010 in review

Maura Rodgers Robinson
Maura Rodgers Robinson

We love Startups. Since Bootup launched 18 months ago, we have organized more than 40 startup events and supported over 12 other tech events in our community. We look forward to seeing and helping more startups bootup in Vancouver, BC and across Canada in 2011.

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2010 in Review
January 2010 Guy Kawasaki Pitch Preparation Mentor for Bootup Demo Days When it comes to starting a company and preparing and delivering the perfect pitch, Guy Kawasaki wrote a book or two or three on it. Guy Kawasaki met and worked with 8 startups to get them pitch ready for Demo Days. Guy Kawasaki pictured with the Layerboom Team.
February 2010 Bootup Demo Days in partnership with Bootup Labs & Canadian Financing Forum Bootup invited 4 startups, who applied and were selected by a panel, to participate in Bootup Demo Days with Bootup Labs. Select startups pitched to an audience of sophisticated investors in Vancouver & San Francisco. Over 50 investors attended both events including Accel, First Round Capital, Jeff Clavier, Growthworks, Lightspeed Ventures and Sequoia Capital to name a few. Startups were also interviewed by RWW & Techcrunch.
February 2010 Arif Janmohamed LightSpeed Ventures Arif dropped by Bootup to talk with local entrepreneurs about Lightspeed and the Valley culture. As a Canadian and member of theC100, a non-pro鍖t member organization comprised of experienced Canadian technology leaders, Arif wants to see tech hubs like Vancouver 鍖ourish.
March 2010 Matt Galligan Founder, SimpleGeo Matt Galligan, 26, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of San Francisco, CA that provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure for app developers. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Matt met with various companies at Bootup and attended Democamp 10.
March 2010 Democamp 10 The Geo Edition From the growth of GPS in virtually every phone to location aware applications of all kinds, well be focusing on showcasing demos that connect around space in some way. Packed house again at Ceilis,Vancouver.
March 2010 Saul Colt Community Evangelist to such Companies as Freshbooks, Thoora, Rogers Ventures & ZipCar Talk: How to Build a Community Around Your Product/Service. Saul Colt, who was recently named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators and has been called one of Canada's best community builders/experiential marketers, knows a thing or two about marketing and building a community for some of Canada's best brands. From helping bring the Zip Car Franchise to Canada and growing the Freshbook's online invoicing community to his current role as Lead Evangelist at Thoora.com, Saul has tried and learned many things. But he still believes that the best way to build a community around your product or service is to simply treat your customers like the prettiest girls in the room.
June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 Over 550 attendees, 8 Startups. http://lpv9.launchpartyhq.com/ At the Roundhouse on June 17 Our ninth edition of Launch Party Vancouver on June 17th was de鍖nitely our biggest event yet. As Debbie Landa tweeted, LPV9 was de鍖nitely a whos who of Canadian tech. We were thrilled to have Chris Albinson, Katherine Barr, Dan Martell, Debbie Landa, and Anthony Lee from the C100 鍖y up from Silicon Valley as well as Chris Arsenault and Shawn Abbott from iNovia Capital in the house. readcrumbs
June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 - Judges Choice Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion speci鍖c landing pages without the need for IT or developers. Photo Credit: Jeremy Lim.ca http://www.unbounce.com
June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 - Peoples Choice Simple contract-making for web- savvy small businesses. Prepare, negotiate and organize your contracts. http://contractual.ly/ Photo Credit: Jeremy Lim.ca
June 2010 CoFounder Speed Dating 40 attendees. 2 companies formed. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Its more important than your product, market, and investors. Co-Founder Speed Dating aims to bring together talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets to start innovative new companies. All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own. We help you 鍖nd co-founders with complimentary skill sets. Entrepreneurship can be lonely. Its important to have someone else there with you to help you ride out the lows and celebrate your successes.
June 2010 Dan Martell Co-Founder, Flowtown.com Talk: Lean Development - Learning is the Killer Feature Dan Martell is the co-founder of Flowtown.com, a social marketing platform for small businesses. An award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his 鍖rst start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008. In today's world of open source, cheap computing power and API's, it's not if you can build it, but should you build it. The #1 startup killer is running out of time to "鍖gure it out" before you get traction. Lean product development is the methodology that allowed companies like; PayPal,Yelp and Aardvark to pivot into their market to become a dominate player. Dan talked about the science behind the approach.
July 2010 Democamp 11 Back to Basics Edition We went old school for Democamp 11 at Ceilis. We had 16 - 30 second pitches and 8, 6 minute presentations. 120 attendees.
August 2010 Jon Gelsey Director of Corporate Development, Microsoft Talk: How to Be Acquired By Microsoft Jon has been responsible for acquisitions and investments for Microsofts operating systems, search, content and advertising business groups since 2007. Closed deals publicly announced include Powerset (semantic search), Kidaro (application virtualization), Calista (desktop virtualization), N-trig (multitouch UI hardware components; equity investment), Multimap (#1 mapping site in the UK), and Green鍖eld Online (product reviews). Jon shared some insights on the process that he goes through when considering to buy vs. build and let BC companies and investors know how to get his attention.
August 2010 Grow Conference Dealmaker Media hosted the 鍖rst ever Grow Conference in Vancouver in August 2010. It was a truly inspiring event for Canadian entrepreneurs and featured some of the best in鍖uencers, entrepreneurs and investors in the biz including: Tony Hsieh, Kara Swisher, Rob Hayes of First Round, Dave McClure and many more. Bootup was a partner and big supporter of this must attend event. Sonia Ryan, Deb Landa of Dealmaker and Maura Rodgers of Bootup
October 2010 Bootup in the Valley Bootup headed to the Valley for a joint event with Metabridge and Bootup Labs in San Francisco, CA and to also participate in the C100s 48 Hours in the Valley event. Dan Martell - Flowtown, Mike McDerment, Freshbooks & Danny Robinson - Bootup Labs
November 2010 Democamp 12 Another jam packed Democamp event at the Lounge on Granville Street. 14 Lightning Pitches. 120 attendees
November 2010 Facebook Developers Garage Bootup hosted a Facebook Develoers Garage on November 8, 2010. Mike Vernal of Facebook in Palo Alto, CA 鍖ew up to kick things off and share more info and updates on the Facebook Dev. Platform. Local speakers included: Jason Bailey, who sold Super Rewards to AdKnowledge Russell Ovans from Backstage (now part of RealNetworks) J.Joly from Dimerocker Mike Vernal, Facebook - CA, Elmer Sotto, Facebook, ON and Jason Bailey, AdKnowledge Parveen Kaler of Smartful Studios Paul Prescod from Ayogo Games
November 2010 Term Sheet Theatre Bootup teamed up with the VEF to host a play about the terms, the traps and the art of negotiating a term sheet. It was a very entertaining and informative evening that covered: how to get the best deal for your company what terms are market these days The All Star Cast. how to identify potential traps insights into the 鍖nancing process
December 2010 Mike Macadaan VP of User Experience & Design, MySpace Talk: User Experience & Design for Web Startups Everysuccessful Internet startup recognizes that designing for the web and mobile goes way beyond shiny things and a fancy UI. To get traction, you need a site that is easy to navigate, re鍖ects the personality of your brand, communicates your story and ultimately, turns site visitors into customers. Mike Macadaan, the VP of User Experience & Design at MySpace knows a few things about designing for the Web and breathing life into a tired brand. Mike 鍖ew up from LA to discuss: The Importance of Design from the get-go MySpace Redesign Where to 鍖nd Inspiration How to attract and 鍖nd the right designer How to convert visitors to customers How to Overhaul something that is dying
December 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 Over 450 attendees, 9 Startups. http://lpv10.launchpartyhq.com/ At Canvas Lounge, December 1, 2010 Our 10th edition of Launch Party Vancouver was on December 1, 2010 at Canvas Lounge in Gastown. The venue was packed full of BCs best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors and in鍖uencers and featured 9 stellar startups showing off their wares and having fun. PANTY BY POST
December 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 - Judges Choice Geotoko offers a quick and easy way to build and measure location-based deals and promotions. http://geotoko.com Danny Robinson, Maura Rodgers, & Adarsh Pallian.
June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 - Peoples Choice Foodtree helps you discover where your food is from and connects you directly with the source, so you can feel confident about the food you eat. Just like a family tree, a Foodtree traces the origins of your food from the farm, ocean or forest right to your table. For example, a quick search on Foodtree can tell you not only where you can buy the freshest local salmon in your area but also provide you with detailed information on the fisherman, who caught it. With Foodtree, transparent and relevant food information is Anthony Nicalo and Derek Shanahan, Founders of Foodtree finally at your fingertips. http://www.foodtree.com
December 2010 Bootup Garage Launched a Pilot Project, December 1 A collaborative space for founders to bootup. The Bootup Garage is something we believe every healthy startup ecosystem needs and we want to create a space where Internet founders and developers know they can come, connect and hack away on their idea in a very supportive, collaborative and inspiring environment. It is not meant to be a co-working space, where you rent a desk on a monthly basis. The space will support new ventures from their earliest single-founder ideation stage through small-team prototype development, until the startup has achieved proof of demand and is ready to accept funding or establish their own workspace. In the 鍖rst two weeks, 26 founders applied to be members and we signed up 28 awesome mentors to hold of鍖ce hours on site every week. Mentors include: Boris Wertz, Jason Bailey, Danny Robinson, Mike Macadaan, Deb Landa, Leonard Brody, David Ascher and many more. http:/www.bootup.ca/garage
2009 in a Glance
2009 Mentor Talks Mentor Talks April - Brad Feld, Founder Techstars July - Tom Higgins, Unity August - Patrick Lor, iStockPhoto October - Mike Lee, Rogers Ventures November - Paul Kedrosky, Michael McDerment December - Jonathan Ehrlich, Facebook
2009 Workshops Workshops July - Legal 101 Workshop July - The Future of Web & Mobile Gaming August - One-on-One Pitch Prep with Patrick Lor, Jonathan Bixby September - DFAIT Pitch Prep November - How to Build a Web App Business December - Facebook Marketing, Jonathan Ehrlich
2009 Networking Community Networking Events 3 Launch Party Events 6 Democamp Events (every 2 months) 2 Co-Founder Speed dating Events (June, September 2009) 1 Mentor Speed dating (February 2010) 5 Mentor Mixers Conference Bootup Demo Days in YVR & SF 150 Investors/Mentors
2009 Supported Events DFait Bootcamp/Event (September 2009) Chicks Who Click (June 2009) YVR Twestival (March 2010) Fusion Forum (November 2009) Product Management workshop with Lauren Hill (February 2010) VEDC VIP Olympic Program (February 2010) Cloud Camp (March 2010) PhoneGap Hackday (March 2010) NSERC Scholarship Information Breakfast (March 2010) DFait Speaker, Clint Chao (March 2010) VEF Events (September 2009 - June 2010) CEO Roundtable (April 2010) Metabridge (June 2010) Startup Weekend(September 2010) Barcamp Sponsor (November 2010)
Total Events To Date. 18 Months = 40 Events* > 5000 attendees *+ 12 supported events
Feedback For the past (few) years, Bootup Entrepreneurial Society has been at the core of all things Web in Vancouver. Whether its bringing top class mentors like Guy Kawasaki, or consistently organizing fun, productive events - Maura's team has got it covered. Vancouver is a better place to work and do business thanks to BES - at Mobify, we can't wait to see what's next!" - Igor Faletski, Mobify.me Through the opportunities provided to us through BES, we have talked with Fortune 500 companies about becoming a customer and received great feedback from live customers we never would have gotten to without their help. - Howie Wu, Layerboom I wanted to thank BES for the opportunity to present at Bootup Demo Days and for all your hard work in organizing that event. It was a good experience for us and we made some excellent contacts. Rick Perrault, Unbounce
Feedback The Bootup Entrepreneurial Society runs the best events for technology startups and entrepreneurs in Vancouver. The best people attend. The best discussions result. The best connections are made. If not for their presence and leadership in the Vancouver startup community, we would be much poorer and less well connected. BES do yeoman's work behind the scenes to drive forward the startup community and light the entrepreneurial fires of the people leading the innovation economy. Democamps, Launch Parties, Workshops and Demo Days have all been a great boost for AdHack as a company and me as an entrepreneur. - James Sherrett, Founder of AdHack
Many thanks to our community organizers. Angela Baldonero Derek Shanahan Mack Flavelle CoFounder Speed Dating Startup Drinks Mentor Speed Dating Parveen Kaler Lyal Avery Democamp Democamp
Many thanks to our sponsors.

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Bootup 2010 in review

  • 2. January 2010 Guy Kawasaki Pitch Preparation Mentor for Bootup Demo Days When it comes to starting a company and preparing and delivering the perfect pitch, Guy Kawasaki wrote a book or two or three on it. Guy Kawasaki met and worked with 8 startups to get them pitch ready for Demo Days. Guy Kawasaki pictured with the Layerboom Team.
  • 3. February 2010 Bootup Demo Days in partnership with Bootup Labs & Canadian Financing Forum Bootup invited 4 startups, who applied and were selected by a panel, to participate in Bootup Demo Days with Bootup Labs. Select startups pitched to an audience of sophisticated investors in Vancouver & San Francisco. Over 50 investors attended both events including Accel, First Round Capital, Jeff Clavier, Growthworks, Lightspeed Ventures and Sequoia Capital to name a few. Startups were also interviewed by RWW & Techcrunch.
  • 4. February 2010 Arif Janmohamed LightSpeed Ventures Arif dropped by Bootup to talk with local entrepreneurs about Lightspeed and the Valley culture. As a Canadian and member of theC100, a non-pro鍖t member organization comprised of experienced Canadian technology leaders, Arif wants to see tech hubs like Vancouver 鍖ourish.
  • 5. March 2010 Matt Galligan Founder, SimpleGeo Matt Galligan, 26, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of San Francisco, CA that provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure for app developers. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Matt met with various companies at Bootup and attended Democamp 10.
  • 6. March 2010 Democamp 10 The Geo Edition From the growth of GPS in virtually every phone to location aware applications of all kinds, well be focusing on showcasing demos that connect around space in some way. Packed house again at Ceilis,Vancouver.
  • 7. March 2010 Saul Colt Community Evangelist to such Companies as Freshbooks, Thoora, Rogers Ventures & ZipCar Talk: How to Build a Community Around Your Product/Service. Saul Colt, who was recently named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators and has been called one of Canada's best community builders/experiential marketers, knows a thing or two about marketing and building a community for some of Canada's best brands. From helping bring the Zip Car Franchise to Canada and growing the Freshbook's online invoicing community to his current role as Lead Evangelist at Thoora.com, Saul has tried and learned many things. But he still believes that the best way to build a community around your product or service is to simply treat your customers like the prettiest girls in the room.
  • 8. June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 Over 550 attendees, 8 Startups. http://lpv9.launchpartyhq.com/ At the Roundhouse on June 17 Our ninth edition of Launch Party Vancouver on June 17th was de鍖nitely our biggest event yet. As Debbie Landa tweeted, LPV9 was de鍖nitely a whos who of Canadian tech. We were thrilled to have Chris Albinson, Katherine Barr, Dan Martell, Debbie Landa, and Anthony Lee from the C100 鍖y up from Silicon Valley as well as Chris Arsenault and Shawn Abbott from iNovia Capital in the house. readcrumbs
  • 9. June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 - Judges Choice Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion speci鍖c landing pages without the need for IT or developers. Photo Credit: Jeremy Lim.ca http://www.unbounce.com
  • 10. June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 9 - Peoples Choice Simple contract-making for web- savvy small businesses. Prepare, negotiate and organize your contracts. http://contractual.ly/ Photo Credit: Jeremy Lim.ca
  • 11. June 2010 CoFounder Speed Dating 40 attendees. 2 companies formed. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Its more important than your product, market, and investors. Co-Founder Speed Dating aims to bring together talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets to start innovative new companies. All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own. We help you 鍖nd co-founders with complimentary skill sets. Entrepreneurship can be lonely. Its important to have someone else there with you to help you ride out the lows and celebrate your successes.
  • 12. June 2010 Dan Martell Co-Founder, Flowtown.com Talk: Lean Development - Learning is the Killer Feature Dan Martell is the co-founder of Flowtown.com, a social marketing platform for small businesses. An award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his 鍖rst start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008. In today's world of open source, cheap computing power and API's, it's not if you can build it, but should you build it. The #1 startup killer is running out of time to "鍖gure it out" before you get traction. Lean product development is the methodology that allowed companies like; PayPal,Yelp and Aardvark to pivot into their market to become a dominate player. Dan talked about the science behind the approach.
  • 13. July 2010 Democamp 11 Back to Basics Edition We went old school for Democamp 11 at Ceilis. We had 16 - 30 second pitches and 8, 6 minute presentations. 120 attendees.
  • 14. August 2010 Jon Gelsey Director of Corporate Development, Microsoft Talk: How to Be Acquired By Microsoft Jon has been responsible for acquisitions and investments for Microsofts operating systems, search, content and advertising business groups since 2007. Closed deals publicly announced include Powerset (semantic search), Kidaro (application virtualization), Calista (desktop virtualization), N-trig (multitouch UI hardware components; equity investment), Multimap (#1 mapping site in the UK), and Green鍖eld Online (product reviews). Jon shared some insights on the process that he goes through when considering to buy vs. build and let BC companies and investors know how to get his attention.
  • 15. August 2010 Grow Conference Dealmaker Media hosted the 鍖rst ever Grow Conference in Vancouver in August 2010. It was a truly inspiring event for Canadian entrepreneurs and featured some of the best in鍖uencers, entrepreneurs and investors in the biz including: Tony Hsieh, Kara Swisher, Rob Hayes of First Round, Dave McClure and many more. Bootup was a partner and big supporter of this must attend event. Sonia Ryan, Deb Landa of Dealmaker and Maura Rodgers of Bootup
  • 16. October 2010 Bootup in the Valley Bootup headed to the Valley for a joint event with Metabridge and Bootup Labs in San Francisco, CA and to also participate in the C100s 48 Hours in the Valley event. Dan Martell - Flowtown, Mike McDerment, Freshbooks & Danny Robinson - Bootup Labs
  • 17. November 2010 Democamp 12 Another jam packed Democamp event at the Lounge on Granville Street. 14 Lightning Pitches. 120 attendees
  • 18. November 2010 Facebook Developers Garage Bootup hosted a Facebook Develoers Garage on November 8, 2010. Mike Vernal of Facebook in Palo Alto, CA 鍖ew up to kick things off and share more info and updates on the Facebook Dev. Platform. Local speakers included: Jason Bailey, who sold Super Rewards to AdKnowledge Russell Ovans from Backstage (now part of RealNetworks) J.Joly from Dimerocker Mike Vernal, Facebook - CA, Elmer Sotto, Facebook, ON and Jason Bailey, AdKnowledge Parveen Kaler of Smartful Studios Paul Prescod from Ayogo Games
  • 19. November 2010 Term Sheet Theatre Bootup teamed up with the VEF to host a play about the terms, the traps and the art of negotiating a term sheet. It was a very entertaining and informative evening that covered: how to get the best deal for your company what terms are market these days The All Star Cast. how to identify potential traps insights into the 鍖nancing process
  • 20. December 2010 Mike Macadaan VP of User Experience & Design, MySpace Talk: User Experience & Design for Web Startups Everysuccessful Internet startup recognizes that designing for the web and mobile goes way beyond shiny things and a fancy UI. To get traction, you need a site that is easy to navigate, re鍖ects the personality of your brand, communicates your story and ultimately, turns site visitors into customers. Mike Macadaan, the VP of User Experience & Design at MySpace knows a few things about designing for the Web and breathing life into a tired brand. Mike 鍖ew up from LA to discuss: The Importance of Design from the get-go MySpace Redesign Where to 鍖nd Inspiration How to attract and 鍖nd the right designer How to convert visitors to customers How to Overhaul something that is dying
  • 21. December 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 Over 450 attendees, 9 Startups. http://lpv10.launchpartyhq.com/ At Canvas Lounge, December 1, 2010 Our 10th edition of Launch Party Vancouver was on December 1, 2010 at Canvas Lounge in Gastown. The venue was packed full of BCs best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors and in鍖uencers and featured 9 stellar startups showing off their wares and having fun. PANTY BY POST
  • 22. December 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 - Judges Choice Geotoko offers a quick and easy way to build and measure location-based deals and promotions. http://geotoko.com Danny Robinson, Maura Rodgers, & Adarsh Pallian.
  • 23. June 2010 Launch Party Vancouver 10 - Peoples Choice Foodtree helps you discover where your food is from and connects you directly with the source, so you can feel confident about the food you eat. Just like a family tree, a Foodtree traces the origins of your food from the farm, ocean or forest right to your table. For example, a quick search on Foodtree can tell you not only where you can buy the freshest local salmon in your area but also provide you with detailed information on the fisherman, who caught it. With Foodtree, transparent and relevant food information is Anthony Nicalo and Derek Shanahan, Founders of Foodtree finally at your fingertips. http://www.foodtree.com
  • 24. December 2010 Bootup Garage Launched a Pilot Project, December 1 A collaborative space for founders to bootup. The Bootup Garage is something we believe every healthy startup ecosystem needs and we want to create a space where Internet founders and developers know they can come, connect and hack away on their idea in a very supportive, collaborative and inspiring environment. It is not meant to be a co-working space, where you rent a desk on a monthly basis. The space will support new ventures from their earliest single-founder ideation stage through small-team prototype development, until the startup has achieved proof of demand and is ready to accept funding or establish their own workspace. In the 鍖rst two weeks, 26 founders applied to be members and we signed up 28 awesome mentors to hold of鍖ce hours on site every week. Mentors include: Boris Wertz, Jason Bailey, Danny Robinson, Mike Macadaan, Deb Landa, Leonard Brody, David Ascher and many more. http:/www.bootup.ca/garage
  • 25. 2009 in a Glance
  • 26. 2009 Mentor Talks Mentor Talks April - Brad Feld, Founder Techstars July - Tom Higgins, Unity August - Patrick Lor, iStockPhoto October - Mike Lee, Rogers Ventures November - Paul Kedrosky, Michael McDerment December - Jonathan Ehrlich, Facebook
  • 27. 2009 Workshops Workshops July - Legal 101 Workshop July - The Future of Web & Mobile Gaming August - One-on-One Pitch Prep with Patrick Lor, Jonathan Bixby September - DFAIT Pitch Prep November - How to Build a Web App Business December - Facebook Marketing, Jonathan Ehrlich
  • 28. 2009 Networking Community Networking Events 3 Launch Party Events 6 Democamp Events (every 2 months) 2 Co-Founder Speed dating Events (June, September 2009) 1 Mentor Speed dating (February 2010) 5 Mentor Mixers Conference Bootup Demo Days in YVR & SF 150 Investors/Mentors
  • 29. 2009 Supported Events DFait Bootcamp/Event (September 2009) Chicks Who Click (June 2009) YVR Twestival (March 2010) Fusion Forum (November 2009) Product Management workshop with Lauren Hill (February 2010) VEDC VIP Olympic Program (February 2010) Cloud Camp (March 2010) PhoneGap Hackday (March 2010) NSERC Scholarship Information Breakfast (March 2010) DFait Speaker, Clint Chao (March 2010) VEF Events (September 2009 - June 2010) CEO Roundtable (April 2010) Metabridge (June 2010) Startup Weekend(September 2010) Barcamp Sponsor (November 2010)
  • 30. Total Events To Date. 18 Months = 40 Events* > 5000 attendees *+ 12 supported events
  • 31. Feedback For the past (few) years, Bootup Entrepreneurial Society has been at the core of all things Web in Vancouver. Whether its bringing top class mentors like Guy Kawasaki, or consistently organizing fun, productive events - Maura's team has got it covered. Vancouver is a better place to work and do business thanks to BES - at Mobify, we can't wait to see what's next!" - Igor Faletski, Mobify.me Through the opportunities provided to us through BES, we have talked with Fortune 500 companies about becoming a customer and received great feedback from live customers we never would have gotten to without their help. - Howie Wu, Layerboom I wanted to thank BES for the opportunity to present at Bootup Demo Days and for all your hard work in organizing that event. It was a good experience for us and we made some excellent contacts. Rick Perrault, Unbounce
  • 32. Feedback The Bootup Entrepreneurial Society runs the best events for technology startups and entrepreneurs in Vancouver. The best people attend. The best discussions result. The best connections are made. If not for their presence and leadership in the Vancouver startup community, we would be much poorer and less well connected. BES do yeoman's work behind the scenes to drive forward the startup community and light the entrepreneurial fires of the people leading the innovation economy. Democamps, Launch Parties, Workshops and Demo Days have all been a great boost for AdHack as a company and me as an entrepreneur. - James Sherrett, Founder of AdHack
  • 33. Many thanks to our community organizers. Angela Baldonero Derek Shanahan Mack Flavelle CoFounder Speed Dating Startup Drinks Mentor Speed Dating Parveen Kaler Lyal Avery Democamp Democamp
  • 34. Many thanks to our sponsors.